France: How journalists fought fake news in election full of scandals
by Jane Whyatt
An innovative project from the American think-and-do tank First Draft News has shed light on many murky aspects of the 2017 French presidential election campaign. In the CrossCheck project, journalists from a number of different newspapers and websites worked together to verify and examine claims from all sides of the political spectrum.
The bilingual Cross Check platform was set up to counter fake news during the French elections, and may or may not see a repeat during the German ones coming up in September. (Screenshot: https://crosscheck.firstdraftnews.com/france-en/)
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